Thanks WiseGeek for popping up this again. Water sanitation issue is still a carbuncle and the ignorance of thinking is the best purified is still in perpetuity here in developing countries. How much more dangerous if such bottled water is kept in cars that use diesel? Just as its achievable and in practice in some advanced supermarkets, you can choose which container you prefer – bottle or paper format.
Ministries of education in collaboration with Federal Ministries of Education, Health and Information, State Quality Control for Food and Drugs should help alert manufacturers, distributors and retailers, school teachers and health workers in a gradual manner that will not warrant instant withdrawal of bottled water from shops and ports.
If the campaign against bottled water posing danger will be effective it should start from experts design of jingles and workshops communique and planned information education and communication of how alternative packaging will be achieved and why alternative potable water will be encouraged, confirmed and popularized among consumers at home and on farms, in houses and camps and picnics and dorms, and patient wards in public and private clinics and infirmaries.
Imagine most lay people who are scientifically illiterate might not believe the porosity of the water bottles and how microscopic algae and allied vapor can leach into the materials.
A medical friend, once an Honorable Commissioner for health warned with pictures on Facebook sometime, a year ago and later reinforced by a wiseGEEK post earlier in the year.
I always felt guilty just keeping unused bottled water in my fridge, which I don't switch on always if I don't have something to cool. I thought I was an eccentric until a Filipino trainer recalled the same practice when he was still ordinary, before his MLM morphed him into a multimillionaire.
Bottled water is no longer a big deal or regarded as the safest water, to me, because experts have told us the plastic container is a hive of chemical reactions to its content and surrounding fluid. This danger should be succinctly advertised for the global public because of the captivity of convenience everywhere on planet earth. Chemical engineers and allied biologists should design options that will safe and possibly have a shorter or longer shelf-life
Now the proven relevance and efficacy of food supplements are becoming supportive beyond wellness-water quality and potability and safe packaging should be prioritized for public consumption because water is the best liquid everyone needs for efficient metabolism daily, depending on the individual's BMI (body mass index).
According to experts, an intake of good quality and quantity of water daily will reduce fatigue by at least 3 percent.The benefits of water intake daily are much more but that's another topic entirely.
Google is no mean an internet company and wiseGEEK too is no mean online company with a galaxy of researchers working for them. Why can't the bottled water issue professionally alerted by wiseGEEK be put forward to attract support from the UN's 2015 -2030 sustainable goals and 169 targets?
As a humble educator for health and health issue blogger, I know there's a lot involved and time and resources put in are worthy for all since it is now obvious that something like the water decade of the 80S can't be achieved in a split of a second for pathology or leaking fluid in materials like plastic so common and likable, like ice cream.
The focus will be IEC (information,education and communication) on the dangers of bottled water and allied unclean sources of water in poor communities of the world. The world is so rich in material resources, that only financial morality and the coefficient of selfishness hamper equity and progress in human safety development measures.
